Yvette Torres, one of FBI's most wanted kidnappers, surrenders after fleeing to Spain with daughter 12 years ago

Yvette Torres, one of the FBI's most wanted kidnappers, has turned over her daughter to her father. (FBI)

One of the FBI's most wanted kidnappers has surrendered to authorities 12 years after fleeing overseas with her toddler daughter, the Daily News has learned.

Yvette Torres, who had been living in Spain for the past several years, agreed to return to the U.S. and hand over her now-14-year-old daughter Sabrena to the baby's father, sources said.

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Torres, 49, was released on $75,000 bail last week as part of the deal worked out in advance.

The longtime fugitive suffers from bipolar disorder and must receive an evaluation and treatment for "mental health problems," according to court papers.

Sabrena has been returned to her father Davis Beck, who sired the girl after Torres had broken up with her husband David Dawson. "No comment, my friend, no comment," said a man who answered the phone at Beck's Long Island home and then hung up.

Beck and Torres never married, but were sharing custody of the child, though he lived in Hauppauge, Long Island and she in Florida.

In June, 2000, Torres invited her ex-husband Dawson to take a European vacation with her and the then-2-year-old girl after she'd obtained passports for herself and the daughter using the name Dawson.

The trio flew to London, then traveled to France by train before heading on to Barcelona, where Dawson learned that the child had been kidnapped by Torres. He returned to the U.S. and contacted authorities. An arrest warrant was issued, but Torres remained oversees as a fugitive. While she was overseas, Suffolk County Family Court awarded Beck sole custody of the girl.

Torres' relatives who signed the bail bond refused to comment.

The case was so notorious that author Alice Sebold used a photo of Sabrena and other missing children to illustrate a special edition of her gut-wrenching novel "The Lovely Bones" about a young girl who is abducted and murdered.